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EEK EY “News from Next Door” SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2023 $1.50 PAGE 3 Pirates QB Knapp competes in National Showcase in Texas PAGE 3 Carolina Moon Theater hosts drama camp for children PAGE 4 Sheridan: Ukrainian reset tles in US but hasn’t forgotten her homeland Seeds of Success Hertford, Winfall voters to decide contested races REGGIE P0NDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Dance instructor Amy Tinsley (right) leads participants in the Seeds of Success summer camp through some dance steps at her studio on Saturday, July 22. About 30 Hertford-area youth participated in the weeklong camp. See story, A3. Exum named Holmes Teacher of Year Exum teaches special education students at Holmes High School BY VERNON FUESTON Staff Writer EDENTON — Nichole Exum is a teacher, but her class is like none other at John A. Holmes High School. The high school’s Teacher of the Year for 2023-24 teaches special ed ucation students. At the high school, stu dents in the special educa tion program follow one of three tracks — inclusion studies, occupational train ing or life skills — depend ing on their level of ability. Exum teaches five students who concentrate on life skills. It is a challenging assign ment. Exum must teach reading, math, and work skills her students need to function in the real world they will soon graduate into. EXUM Take reading, for example. Exum faces a complex challenge. Books for students in her class need to be age-appro priate and level appropriate. There are lots of books that are level appropriate, and the easy solution is to use books that were written for younger readers. Exum said her students enjoy those, but they also want to read about subjects and people that model then- own age. Very few authors write books at something at an elementary school read ing level but address the interests of high school stu dents. Finding such books is one of Exum’s challenges. And then, she must match the reading material to her student’s ability lev el. Each of her five students has a different level and cir cumstances. Exum tries to teach math using real-world life skills. Students learn to count money, make change, and work on real-life problems they encounter outside the classroom. One tool Exum uses is the Aces Cafe. Her class is licensed as an educational kitchen and her students make breakfast biscuits, muffins, coffee, juice, and other morning treats for the school staff. Orders come into the cafe each morning from teachers and staff who place them from their desktop com puters or cellphones. The cafe staff gather the orders, pull the ingredients from the cupboard, and make breakfast. Then they deliver the food and collect money, making change where it’s needed. When the morning rush is over, Exum’s students take inventory of their food stocks, check stocking lev els, and make a grocery list. Then Exum takes them to the store, where they pick out the food and check each item off the list. Exum also has her stu dents use self-checkout kiosks, teaching them the right way to pack groceries and scan bar codes, all skills they may need once they graduate. Her classroom is also equipped with basic house hold appliances. Exum’s students learn how to do laundry, clean dishes, and perform other household chores. But some skills are more intangible. Students of the ability level in Exum’s class tend to live in small worlds. They aren’t com fortable meeting new peo ple or talking to strangers. See TEACHER, A6 White files for mayor; Felton, Harvey file for town council BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer Thanks to a flurry of filings on the last day of the filing period last week, Hertford and Winfall vot ers will have contested races for both mayor and town council in the No vember election. Meanwhile, there were no new filings in Edenton, mean ing the town’s Nov. 7 election is set with contested races for two town council seats and two candidates — mayoral hopeful Hackney High and incumbent 2nd Ward Coun cilor Sam Dixon — who are running unopposed. In Hertford, community leader Reginald White filed for mayor on the last day of filing, setting up a contest ed race with Town Council- Emergency services: If you call 911 in error, don’t hang up Officials: Dispatchers need to confirm caller is safe BY JULIAN EURE Managing Editor Local emergency re sponse officials say they’re seeing an uptick both in the number of accidental 911 calls and the number of people who make them prematurely hanging up. They’re hoping to curb the incidence of both. Julie M. Solesbee, assis tant emergency manage ment coordinator and pub lic information officer for HARVEY RICHARDSON or Ashley Hodges, who had filed for mayor on the first day of filing. Current Mayor Earnell Brown had already announced she didn’t plan to seek re-election. Former Winfall Town Councilor Virginia P. Har vey and former Hertford Councilor Gracie Felton also filed in Hertford on the last day of filing. They joined first-time candidates Keith Rouse and Rhonda Waters who also had filed on the first day of filing. In Winfall, Christopher See ELECTIONS, A6 Perquimans Emergency Services, didn’t immediate ly have figures but said the increase in accidental 911 calls is significant — and not just happening locally. “The NC 911 Board has also been monitoring in formation shared from the National Association of 911 State Administrators and the National Emergen cy Number Association and determined that this is a nationwide issue,” she said in an email. The constantly improving technology of cellphones See 911, A6 Felony assault fugitive arrested Baseball Miracle League coming to area Edenton police, task force nab Dillard after citizen tip From staff reports EDENTON — A Tyner man wanted since April on serious felony assault charges is finally in custo dy thanks to a tip to law enforcement and follow-up by Edenton police and a re gional fugitive task force. Marlon Dillard, 26, was arrested in the 1300 block of North Broad Street in Eden ton on Wednesday, July 19, according to an Edenton Police Department press re lease. He’s charged with fel ony assault by strangulation and assault on a female. 6 " 89076 47144 Vol. 88, No. 30 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved DILLARD Officers with the Edenton police de partment and agents with the U.S. Mar shal Ser vice’s Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, acting on a citizen tip, took Dillard into custo dy about 9:43 a.m., the re lease states. Dillard was ordered by a magistrate to be detained for 48 hours. His bond was set at a hearing last week. Edenton police Chief Henry King said last week the charges Dillard is fac ing are connected to a shooting incident in Bertie County that 2 happened either in March or early April. He said the female victim of the assault See DILLARD, A6 League will be for kids with mental, physical disabilities BY DAVID GOUGH The Daily Advance HERTFORD — A base- ball league for kids with spe cial needs will soon be com ing to the Albemarle region. It will be this area’s ver sion of the Miracle League, an organization that gives kids the opportunity to play America’s Pastime all around the country. Skip Hawkins, of Hert ford, has plans for the Mir acle League of Albemarle Sound to begin sometime next spring. “I’ve got some good trac tion just trying to get the kids signed up, hopefully, in fall,” Hawkins said. Hawkins recently moved to the area after having spent time volunteering with the Miracle League of Johnston County from 2013-19. By meeting people in the area, many through his participation in Meals on PHOTO COURTESY SKIP HAWKINS A member of the Campbell University baseball team (right) cheers on a player rounding the bases in a Miracle League of Johnston County baseball game. Wheels twice a week, he was told how big baseball is in the area. He said that led him to think having a Miracle League here would be “perfect.” In Miracle League base- ball, every batter bats once per inning, nobody gets out, and everybody reach es base safely and scores. Volunteers act as “buddies” to help the players when they’re batting or fielding, and everybody wins after the two-inning game comes to an end. “It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done,” Hawkins said. “A lot of times, you get so attached to these kids af ter a few years.” The Miracle League of Albemarle Sound, which will be one of more than 350 leagues across the United States of its kind, is designed for kids ages 5-19 who are either mentally or physically disabled. Currently, the league will draw kids from Chowan, Pasquotank and Perquim ans counties, though Haw kins noted the league may also be able to accept kids from out of the immediate area who’d like to partici pate. Upon talking to schools in the area, Hawkins said he’s aware that anywhere from 120 to 160 kids are eligible to join the league. Hawkins figures that 10% of that — See MIRACLE, A2
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